2008 · comedy · romance · music
Jack and Jill vs. The World
Directed by Vanessa Parise1h 29m2008
Jack and Jill's Manifesto of Rules to Live By Rule 1 Be honest Rule 2 Believe in fairy tales Rule 3 Accept time as our friend Rule 4 Make sure the nooky is good Rule 5 Promote beauty. Wage a sustained campaign against ugliness Rule 6 Abandon the pursuit of happiness and its false promise Rule 7 Show compassion, except to pirates Rule 8 Less TV Rule 9 Always be willing to admit when you're wrong
Our read: Jack and Jill vs. The World (2008) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · romance · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- gentle
- intimate
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